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VOL. XIX, No. 11
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1933
Copyright BRYN MAWR
COI.I.KCK XKWS. 1933
PRICE 10 CENTS
Dr. Beebe Lectures
on Deep-Sea Fish
Pictures Phosphorescent Fish
Living Beyond Reach of
. Light Rays
DESCENDED 2200 FEET
'Come, Birdie, Come"
In discussing their respective
nights above and below the earth's
surface, Piccard in a free balloon 10.3
miles up, where, the pressure is one-
tenth of an atmosphere, and Beebe in
a bathysphere, down undersea where
the pressure is eighty atmospheres,
the two explorers laughingly con-
trasted the absence of angels above to
the absence of mermaids below. How-
ever, Dr. William Beebe, lecturing in
Goodhart Hall, January 19, said that
he had seen twenty-seven submarine
sights, all alive, and all stranger by
far than those of Alice in Wonder-
land.
Submarine life has been the last
field of investigation, despite the in-
teresting fact that human blood is
just like salt water in its constitu-
ents, only three times as fresh. With
diving bells and diving suits the
greatest depth Dr. Beebe attained was
only sixty feet, and the very greatest
diving record for a human being is a
525-foot dive of one moment's dura-
tion in a fresh water lake in Ger-
many. Contrasted with a possible
200-foot depth attainable in a diving
suit, and a 400-foot 'ovel in a sub-
marine, we have Beebe's descent 2200
feet below sea level in his bathysphere
off the coast of Bermuda last Sep-
tember.
The oatfiysphere, as it stands im-
proved after difficult experiences in
uncoiling the thirty-seven turns of
wire is an ultramarine blue sphere
of steel, four and one-half feet in
diameter, weighing two tons out of
water. It has quartz windows to with-
stand a pressure of 5,000 tons on the
sphere�fourteen tons on each win-
dow alone, and a general pressure of
nine hundred ninety-six pounds per
square inch. The temperature inside
is kept at about seventy degrees,
while outside it is down to fifty-two
degrees, and the- oxygen supply is
regulated by chemical apparatus pro-
ducing exactly two liters of oxygen
per minute, and containing absorbents
for the moisture and carbon dioxide
given off.
At'seven hundred feet, all daylight
vanishes, the infra red rays being ab-
sorbed first; at eight hundred feet
only a dirty white line remains on
the spectrum, and at seventeen hun-
dred feet there is no spectrum at all
and the only lights are the luminous
organs of many of the fish, which
shine with one hundred per cent, cold
light as compared with the three per
cent, of pure light with which the or-
dinary electric bulbs shines. Look-
ing at these luminous fish, Dr. Beebe
pointed out, was like looking at the
planets, especially in the case of a
six-foot fish with red and blue glob-
ules on its tentacles and a line of
portholes on the side of its body.
The naturalist illustrated his talk
with slides of fish drawn by his art-
ists in color from specimens brought
up by trawling and kept in refrig-
eration for observation, with moving
pictures of his dives, and of deep sea
fish, and with animated cartoons
showing the life and development of
Four of the cast of Murder in the Red Barn, to be done here in February
by the Jitney Players. They are here seen singing "Come, Birdie, Come,"
one of the entre-act divertissments.
to be actually photographed.
He showed drawings of small vari-
colored crustaceans, of brown and
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COLLEGE CALENDAR
Thursday, January 26�Vo-
cational Tea at 5.00 P. M. Miss
Eleanor A. Bliss, Bryn Mawr
'21, will speak on Laboratory
Work and Scientific Research.
Friday, January 27 � Last �
day of lectures.
Friday, January 27�At 4.00
P. ML, basketball, Bryn Mawr
1st and 2nd teams vs. Drexel
Institute 1st and 2nd teams.
Monday, January 30 � Mid-
year examinations begin.
Friday, February 10 � Mid-
year examinations end.
Tuesday, February 14�Sev-
ond semester begins.
Changes in Squad Result
of Basketball Practice
Jitney Players to
Come to Bryn Mawr
Murder in the Red Barn and
Musical Divertissements
Make Program
Swimming Meets to
. Revive Class Rivalry
Class Cups and Panels to be
Won Again in Interclass
Sports Contests
REVIVE OLD MELODRAMA SQUADS ANNOUNCED
College Radio Program
Include World Figures
A nationwide broadcast over the
National Broadcasting Company
chain will carry the speeches of Dr.
Albert Einstein, Dr. Wm. B. Munro,
and Mr. Henry M. Robinson to the
four corners of the United States on
the evening of January 23, when the
combined colleges of Southern Cali-
fornia present a program in the in-
terest of public opinion. The session,
which will be centered in the Civic
Auditorium in Pasadena, California,
will present the student's point of
view when H. Rawlins Overton, pres-
ident of the associated students of
the University of Redlands, speaks
on "The American Student and His
Relation to WorldrJ'roblems."
The sponsoring body of student
body presidents from the eleven col-
leges and universities of Southern"
California is offering the program in
order to stimulate an objective in
terest in the big issues of current
events and world interests. They say,
"The sole motive of the student body
leaders of the Southern California
Colleges and Universities in present-
ing this program as well as the pro-
gram of last year, has been to arouse
an intelligent interest in world af-
fairs with the hope that such inter-
No new entries but several changes
are the results of the Varsity bas-
ketball practice last week. On Fri-
day, Faeth's co-operation with Col-
lier, her quick, accurate passes and
high scoring, gave her a considerable
lead on Baker, whose passing was
'hurried and her shooting often wide
of the basket. Everyone played wild-
ly and even Collier was inclined to
"travel" on her shots.
After trying out several combina-
tions, Miss Grant finally discovered
one which proved to be the most suc-
cessful of the afternoon. The team
was as follows:
Collier�right forward.
Faeth�left forward.
Kent�center.
Remington�side-center.
Jackson�right guard.
Bridgman�lett guard.
Although Kent is one of the best
guards on the squad, she should, if
the new tip-off rules are adopted,
make an excellent center, an import-
ant post, and one for which candi-
dates are sadly lacking, due to Long-
acre's continued absence.
The second team, we also notice,
is beginning to assume definite form.
Meirs and Baker so far have formed
the most successful combination in
the forward positions, with Daniels,
Raynor and Simons close BHdnd them.
Horsburgh has a slight advantage
over Monroe for the center position,
while James, although small, is ex-
tremely quick on her feet and is giv-
ing Collins a close race at side-cen-
ter. Bowditch is as usual playing
a steady game at guard, but Bishop
often keeps too far away from her
forward, leaving her to drop backlli-
rectly under the basket to receive a
pass from the center for an easy
bank-shot.
This week will probably be the final
chance for team tryouts, so watch the
next News for a complete and offi-
Teams.
est will crystalize into rational pub-
some of the fish at'too great a depth lie opinTfln." ejal-4�ts of th* Varsity-and Second
Dr. Albert Einstein, who arrived in
Southern California on January 9,
is visiting the California Institute of
Technology and the surrounding edu-
cational centers through the generos-
ity of the Oberlaender Trust of the
Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation,
which exists for the promotion of
cultural relations between the Ger-
man-speaking peoples and the people
of the United States of America. Dr.
Einstein, who has always addressed
his American audiences in German,
may speak in English for the first
time, although it is not definitely
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Liberal Club
There was a meeting of the
Liberal Club Tuesday night
The meeting decided to suggest
to the college the plan of form-
ing a non-partisan political so-
ciety ' to replace the Liberal
Club. The first speaker of the
second semester will be a tech-
nocrat.
The Varsity Players have under-
taken this spririg to bring to
the college a company of
actors whose work they feel
is interesting and valuable enough to
call to the attention of the Bryn
Mawr audience. These are the Jit-
ney Players, best known for their
summer work touring the Eastern
seaboard in a great truck, which is
also a portable stage. It is a small
ami very enthusiastic company of j
young people, headed by Alice Keat-j
ing Cheney, with a very definite style i
about them which is both charming1
and unique.
The play they will present here late I
in February is known as the Murder;
in the Red Ham, a rousing old-time1
melodrama about a murder and a|
ghost and the triumph of innocence, �
It will bring back to niany the the-;
atre of the past, and to those of the,
younger generation it will reveal the
changes that the drama has under-]
gone during the last fifty years; The |
Jitney � Players present this drama
with all its old-time melodramatic ap-1
peal, with all the furbelows in which ]
the theatre used to dress its plays.
It is presented in all seriousness. The
era of the melodrama was a definite
and individual period in the theatre.
Although these dramas of the past j
thrilled and moved to tears, it is most
interesting to note that the present'
reaction is one of comedy, indicating'
both the change of style of the the-1
atre and in the emotional reaction of j
the new audience.
Besides the play there are the fam-1
ous entre-act divertissements, that arc j
really an evening's entertainment in |
themselves. There is a splendid quar- j
tette of "Come, Birdie, Come," that!
has been stopping the show ever since i
the Jitney Players started to do it,
six seasons ago. Then there is also
the rendering by the gentlemen of
the company of "Man the Life-Boats," ;
and a Jitney tenor who carols the]
famous ballad, "The Fatal Wedding.",
All in all the prgoram promises to be
a most entertaining one and the Play-,
ers hope that the college will prove j
as interested as they themselves are.1
V Appointment
A clipping from the Associ-
ated Press, January 14, an-
nounces among the appoint-
ments and promotions at the
Hartford Theological Seminary,
the appointment of Dr. Hor-
nell Norris Hart, professor � of
sociology at Bryn Mawr, to suc-
ceed Professor Curtis M. Beer
on the faculty of that institu-
tion.
Danger From Scarlet
Fever Cases is Slight
In chapel, Friday, January 20,
Dean Manning discussed the history
of the two cases of scarlet fever re-.
ported in the college this past week.
Both cases, the Dean had been in-
formed, were slight, and this fact,'
^combined with the progress that has
been jnade, recently in the treatment
of scarlet fever, make the dan-
ger from this" heretofore dreaded dis-'
ease comparatively small.
All the students who had been ex-]
posed, including all of Rockefeller and
the students who may have had per- ]
sonal contact with Miss Flanders on
her return from the infirmary on
Wednesday, were given the Dick
test. Those whose reactions have
been negative have not been quaran-
tined, and the students who have
been exposed and TrrV not Immune
to scarlet fever are being kept in the
graduate wing of Denbigh or have
been permitted to go home for a per-
iod of ten days�the incubation period
for scarlet fever. The infirmary and
Wyndham, meanwhile, are under
strict quarantine, and Dr. Easby
holds regular consultation hours for
students in the gymnasium; the swim-
ming pool has also been closed tem-
porarily.
Since the ordinary period of incu-
bation preceding some definite symp-
toms of the disease is at most a week,
the possibilities of an epidemic are
practically non-existent.
Two swimming meets, February 24
and March 3, at 4.15, will mark the
beginning of a revived interest in class
sports. The class banners, till now
kept in mothballs, are being brought
out to decorate the gym for the event.
Cups arc being polished and woodcut-
ters hired to bring the championship
panels in the gym up to, date. To
keep pace with this interest the Physi-
cal Education Department has taken
tfhc practical measure of having the
Dram above the diving-board removed
so that any variety of diving, fancy
or otherwise, is possible. ----------- �
The events and rules for the swim-
ming; meets are as follows:
Events:
20-yard dash
Side-stroke for form
40-yard back-crawl
Crawl for form
40-yard crawl
Diving.
Relay�4 lengths; four entries.
Rules:
1�There may be two entries for
each class in each event.
2�No contestant -may enter more
than two speed events, and one
other event. Relay is counted as
a speed event.
3�Anyone desiring to enter the
meet must go in at least three
times beforehand.
Class managers will have squad
practices which will be announced,
and anyone whose name is not on
the following lists and who is inter-
ested may sign up with her class
manager. The meets offers chances
for beginners because of the promi-
nence of form events, so they are urg-
ed to enter. The squads are, at pres-
ent, as follows:
11)33 � Jackson, class manager;
Hunter, Balis, Bowditch, Candee,
Eckhardt, Funkhauser, Gill, C; Mar-
shall, Mullen, Oldach, Parker, Robert,
Gill, E.; Tyler, Lloyd, Jones, Darling-
ton, Grassi, Torrance.
1934 � Meneely, class manager;
Baldwin, Bowie, Coleman, Daniels,
Dannenbaum, Gardner, Goldwasser,
Jarrett, Jones, S.; Landreth, Parsons,
Righter, Robinson, C; Butler, Bredt,
and Parnell.
1935�BilL* class manager; Bucher,
Cole, Curtis, Davy, Franchot, Hawks,
Hemphill, Hopkinson, Laird, Lane,
Little, P.; Lord, MacCurdy, Morri-
son, Page, Ripley, Robinson, N.; Tay-
lor, Waldemeyer, Douglas, Howe,
Morrow, Munroe, and Swab.
1936�Scott, class manager; Bax-
ter, Bright, Canaday, Cowenhoven,
Crenshaw, Davis, Goldwasser, Gray,
Harrington, Hirschberg, Knapp, Mat-
teson, Merchant, Morley, Noble, Ott,
Porcher, Stokes, Van Vechten, Whit-
ing:, Wright, Wylie, Kimball, Pills-
bury, Heiskell, Kasselbaum, Wood-
ward, A.; Cary.
Professional Players
Open 69th Street Theatre
There is a new theatre in Phila-
delphia quite close to Bryn Mawr,
which may prove of great interest to
Bryn Mawr students in the future:
the new 09th' Street -Playhouse, lo-
cated at 69th and Chestnut Streets,
where a new company of professional
players are inaugurating a little the-
atre movement. The company has
taken over a large room and made
of it one of the most charming small
theatres and stages we have seen. It
is exceedingly well-equipped for the
production of good straight three-act
plays, although hardly for experi-
mental work. The aims of the group
seem to be the production of plays
fitted for little theatre work in a
professional manner and the stimula-
tion of interest in the theatre in this
part of Philadelphia.
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